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isn't having a high level cap pretty much the same thing as having a "admiral ship" a lvl 6 cap is already several orders of magnitude more powerful than a lvl 1 cap. I do like the idea of having some kind of experience for other units tho, to give some sort of value to keeping your ships alive. maybe only 3-5 lvls instead of 10 like for caps. opposing viewpoint: experience for fleet ships would make losing one battle even more detrimental to the overall game,

keep it coming

its typically a shooting "gallery" not "galley"

keeping the thread alive and towards the top of the list is important as it provides new comers an oportunity to spot it and read the story.

I have to admit I don't really like the idea of the vasari being push overs in man-to-man or in a fire fight. what i would like better is that the jackal was just that much of a bad ass, and that kol's muscle memory remembers being the jackal (in kind of a bourne identity way), and he takes out 20 vasari and makes it to the bridge. you never really explained why the jackal was special, just that the tec feared and respected him. i just interpreted that he was some e

The Advent's "the Unity" is actually a mistranslation of their peculiar dialect. A better translation would be "the Unit,"as in Chuck Norris' Unit . To show their worship of Chuck Norris' Unit , the Advent developed the Radiance Battleship, a 1/16 scale replica of his Unit

Kortul and Vulkoras are actually the Vasari names for Chuck Norris' left and right bicep Chuck Norris is enough man for the entire Advent race The reactor output of 100 Kol battleships is still less than 1/100 the energy contained in one Chuck Norris roundhouse Kick 10,000 years ago, in an Imperial Lab in high Orbit above Vasari held Kron: During top secret phase space experiments, Vasari scientists unleashed Chuck Norris upon this universe TEC actually s

good to have you back orodum, your writing skills have been missed

pirate capitals would be great for making things more interesting mid-late game. maybe make pirate capitals start to appear after the pirate bidding reaches a certain amount. although, instead of a kol, i think it makes more sense for them to be dunovs or marzas (without missle barrage, not that the ai ever uses it well anyway). the kols are newer ships built specifically for the vasari war, whereas the other tec capitals were converted civilian ships. i think its more likel

if your tissue is still alive, theres not enough damage for a dna test to come up inconclusive. I'd buy that their dna testing equipment was damaged in the battle, but all you need is a blood sample for testing, which wouldnt be subject to burn damage. also, i don't understand why the commodore of the fleet left his command of the battle to do damage control. that doesnt make any sense. i know he designed the ship or something, but the crew the ship came with would'v

I like a lot of these ideas, but I'm having trouble seeing why I would chose to go the diplomatic route rather than just build fleet and conqueor. The espionage and sabotage ideas would work well, but for other diplomatic ideas to be viable options, there needs to be some worthwhile reasons to use them. for example, why would i choose to trade with a neighbor when i could just steamroll his planet get the income that comes with it instead? that would definitely be the more f

Hope you get back to writing this Orodum. This is one of the better stories on the forums.

progen, radiance, halcyon, 40 drone hosts, 20 flak, 20 guardians, and 17 disciples for antimatter transfer

I know that having lots of units on screen can slow your game down. But i've specifically noticed that when lots of guardians are on screen using shield restore my game crawls. not only that, but the damn visual for it is a nearly opaque bubble around the ships, completely clouding my view of the battle. What setting can I adjust to make this effect less taxing on my system or at least more transparent?

check out the dynamic battle mod by mansh00ter. it gives frigates and cruisers more fighter like movement, it makes the battles look more like ships flying around fighting instead of revolutionary war soldiers standing and shooting at 50 paces.

do the effects of the deliverance engine stack? as in does firing multiple shots at the same planet from several deliverance engines reduce enemy allegiance faster?

I think its pretty clear now that the vasari created cylons and were nuked by their own creations. all of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. seriously though, stardock did a good job creating motivations for all of the races. none of them are blood thirsty maniacs who destroy for the fun of it. The pre-exodus vasari are the closest thing to being evil, being a conqueor all and enslave race. but now they're just on the

I wonder if the devs read these discussions about the mysterious vasari enemy and are like "crap, the community thinks that idea is stupid...back to the drawing board..." whatever it is i'd say theres a 90% chance of it either being: A) Vasari accidently opened a wormhole and some other warlike race came through and dominated or B ) Vasari nanites become self aware, goes skynet on them, is capable of infecting and taking over ships, and wants to kil

doesn't the returning armada research in the game imply that even in the timeline of vanilla sins, the vasari make contact with their old empire and get them to send ships to help in the tec/advent front of their current war?

drop down menu where?

manshooter - re: the cap ship speed issue, have you considered reducing the acceleration alot, but leaving the actual top speed of the cap ship alone? large ships, even in the ocean today, are actually really fast. I'm pretty sure an aircraft carrier can hit 30 knots. i know the game or the mod isn't trying to emulate real world physics, but the bigger the ship, the bigger the engine, and theres insignificant aerodynamic drag in space, so naturally the ship with the most big

I'd drop the "junior strength" from fleet master junior strength. it almost sounds like an oxymoron. Its effectively like a junior admiral. My suggestion would be to change it to "vice fleet master" and make "fleet master high grade" just "fleet master" also maybe consider changing grunt in the vasari ranks to slave since you have slaver right above them 3rd slave 2nd slave 1st slave or slave

I'm on the edge of my seat, man, waiting for the next installment

nice start, can't wait to hear more

keep up the good work! glad you didn't quit when you lost your original chapters